Luogo Comune is an award winning illustrator and mural artist, based between Bologna and Ravenna. Regarding his art practice, he span across both indoor and outdoor spaces, using a wide variety of mediums. His illustrations appear in magazines, newspapers, children’s books and in collaborations with art collectives. Besides the editorials work, his murals can be seen in Italy, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Greece, Estonia, Netherlands and Morocco. Graffiti rooted and being an active muralist for several years, a big interest of him is challenging the aspects of urban space through big wall paintings with a focus on site-specific artworks. His visual language is based on work full of symbolism that combine elements of nature, local tradition’s objects and stories. He uses mostly flat colors palette and graphic approach as key-points to discuss the human condition and reflect to the current social situations.
CLIENTS
Il Foglio, Uppa Magazine, Feltrinelli, La Nuova Frontiera Jr, Sinnos Ed, Editoriale Scienza, Tribune Magazine Uk, Biblioteca Salaborsa, Chialab, Scomodo, Greenpeace, Hoppìpolla, Vita No Profit, Il Saggiatore, Link_Idee per la TV, Coop Italia, Società Coop. Dolce, Topipittori, Il Corriere della Sera, Bloomberg Businessweek, The ZEIT, Food S.r.l, Feltrinelli Jr, Mosquito Books, Camelozampa, La Romana dal 1947
INTERVIEWS – FEATURES
Picame / Exibart / Frizzifrizzi /I-D Italy / Mtn World/Topipittori
Luogo Comune è un illustratore e urban artist italiano.
La sua pratica artistica abbraccia sia il lavoro in esterno che quello in interno utilizzando una grande varietà di medium. Come illustratore ha raccolto molte richieste editoriali quali illustrazioni per magazine, quotidiani e libri illustrati. Come urban artist ha dipinto in diverse città italiane e all’estero in paesi tra cui Belgio, Austria, Spagna, Grecia, Estonia, Olanda e Marocco. Dall’esperienza iniziale come writer, un suo grande interesse è quello di lavorare e mettere in discussione gli aspetti degli spazi pubblici e urbani per produrre grandi opere site-specific. Il suo lavoro si basa su un linguaggio visuale ricco di simbologia che combina elementi della flora, fauna, oggetti delle tradizioni locali o contemporanei, sfruttando principalmente palette di colori piatti e un approccio grafico come punto chiave per discutere la condizione umana e riflettere sui contesto sociale odierno. Attualmente vive e lavora tra Bologna e Ravenna.
CLIENTS
Il Foglio, Uppa Magazine, Feltrinelli, La Nuova Frontiera Jr, Sinnos Ed, Editoriale Scienza, Tribune Magazine Uk, Biblioteca Salaborsa, Chialab, Scomodo, Greenpeace, Hoppìpolla, Vita No Profit, Il Saggiatore, Link_Idee per la TV, Coop Italia, Società Coop. Dolce, Topipittori, Il Corriere della Sera, Bloomberg Businessweek, The ZEIT, Food S.r.l,Feltrinelli Jr, Mosquito Books, Camelozampa, La Romana dal 1947
INTERVIEWS – FEATURES
Picame / Exibart / Frizzifrizzi /I-D Italy / Mtn World/Topipittori
PUBLICATIONS
2024
→ Il Grande libro delle ruote – Sinnos Editrice
→ Amas – Las ultimas sirenas, Mia Cassany – Mosquito Books (Catalunya/Spain)
→ Feltrinelli Junior – Book Cover
→ Crac, Luca Monaco e Matteo Pompili – Camelozampa
2023
→ Bref Magazine n°2/2023 (Switzerland)
→ Corriere della Sera – Motori 29/03
→ Progetto A.r.t.s – Campaign Poster
→ Alfabeti Naturali, F. Buglioni, Topipittori
→ Bloomberg Businessweek – 22/05 (USA)
→ Die Zeit n°29 – 06/07 – (Germany)
→ Food Srl – August issue Cover
→ Immagini dal sud del mondo Movie Festival – Poster
→ Vulcani, Luogo Comune – Editoriale Scienza
→ Ufo! Ufo! Taiwan Race, Taipei Art Book Fair – Taipei (TAIWAN)
2022
→ Il Foglio Sportivo
→ Albert Journal #111 (France)
→ Vita No Profit Magazine – Cover
→ La città del muro, Roberta Balestrucci – Sinnos Editrice
→ Hoppìpolla Box #51
→ Tribune UK Magazine – Cover
→ Link_Idee per la TV
→ Cooperativa Società Dolce – Calendario
2021
→ Teen Breathe, London (UK)
→ Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna (BO)
→ Uppa Magazine #5 – Cover and inside illustration
→ Tricomics, Barcelona (Catalunya)
→ The Milaneser – Cover
→ Feltrinelli Education – Anthology books
2020
→ No Home / Collettivo Franco
→ Presente / Scomodo
→ Greenpeace “Hack Your City” Web Campaign and “Hack The Ads” Poster Campaign
→ Book Cover — La Nuova Frontiera Junior
→ Effe – Issue N° 11
→ ¡La Leche! –Issue N°16
→ Scomodo – Issue N° 26,27,28,33
→ Il Grande Libro Delle Navi, Sinnos Editrice
→ Menelique Magazine – Web illustration
→ Scomodo Magazine, Greenpeace
2019
→ Il saggiatore – Book cover –
→ ¡La Leche! #14
→ LOKZINE #11 – Resistance
→ FLR – The Florentine Review #5
→ Terra chiama Luna, L. Albanese – Editoriale Scienza
→ La Bicicletta di Annie, Roberta Balestrucci – Sinnos Editrice
2018
→ CiCiriZine, CiCiri Festival – Palermo (PA)
→ MyauZine #6 – Italy
→ ConTea n°1 – curated by Chialab
2016 – 2017
→ Residui #2 – Curated by Livio Ninni
→ Napolimonitor – Un santo al giorno
→ Illozine #22 – Scary Monsters
→ Nurant #23 – Migration
2015 – 2012
→ Lahar Magazine #19 – Charles Darwin
→ Il Senzaventre, Jacopo Narros, Ed. Tapirumè
→ Lapisvedese #11 – Furto
EXHIBITIONS - AWARDS
2023
→ Monito/r – Duo Show, Portanova12 Art Gallery (Bologna)
→ 1st prize at Artefici del nostro tempo, Padiglione Venezia ai Giardini della Biennale – Venezia (VE)
→ Ufo! Ufo! Taiwan Race, Taipei Art Book Fair – Taipei (TAIWAN)
2022
→ Seri Graffi – Collective Show, Nero Gallery (Roma)
→ Movies reloaded – Collective Show, Rosso20sette (Roma)
2021
→ Selected illustrator for exhibition of Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2021
→ Hole Project – Collective Show, Adiacenze (Bologna)
→ Art Makes you travel again – Collective Show, Rosso20sette (Roma)
→ Libri Immaginari Festival, En plein air collective Show , Viterbo (VT)
2020
→ Il tempo sospeso – Libri Immaginari Festival, En plein air collective Show , Viterbo (VT)
2019
→ Special mention at Premio Farben/ Taccuino Selvaggio – Bilbolbul Festival, Collective Show – Bologna (BO)
→ Libri Immaginari Festival, Collective Show – Spazio Biancovolta, Viterbo (VT)
→ Illustrators Exibithion at Sharja Book Authority Fair – Sharja (UAE)
→ Vida Krei, Collective show – Ferrara (FE)
→ La festa del maiale – HoboTattooGallery, collective show Bologna (BO)
→ Abecedario, Pinocchio, collective show – Parma (PR)
2018
→ Abecedario, collective show – Parma (PR)
→ Bolo Street Code, collective show Portanova12 Art Gallery – Bologna (BO)
→ Ciciri Festival, collective show – Palermo (PA)
2017 – 2013
→ OiOi – Flora collective show – Prato (FI)
→ Ciciri Festival, collective show – Palermo (PA)
→ BAM, collective show at Innesto Art Space – Bologna (BO)
→ Cheap Street Art Poster Festival, collective show – Bologna (BO)
→ GSManifesta, Collective show – Milano (MI)
→ Shit Art Fair 3, Collective show – Torino (TO)
SELECTED WORKS - WALLS
2024
→ Indoor wall for Gelateria la Romana dal 1947 – Rimini (RN)
2023
→ Fragments from the hills – San Piero in Bagno (FC)
→ Art against Pollution – Colleferro (Roma)
→ Le baie dell’art – Angiari (VR)
→ Writer’s Block Murals – Leeuwarden (NETHERLANDS)
→ Calle Libre Festival – Vienna (AUSTRIA)
→ RUA Street Art Festival – Viljandi (ESTONIA)
→ Micro/Macro, Rosso Tiepido – Montale Rangone (MO)
→ Run Rome the Marathon – Roma
→ Youth Coop Experience – Roma
2022
→ Underbridge Festival – Innsbruck (Austria)
→ Reperti Urbani – Pesaro (PU)
→ Districto Vertical – Valladolid (Spain)
→ Goldmine Project – Wallin VZW, Ghent (Belgium)
→ Tonite – Il Cerchio e le gocce, Torino (TO)
→ Visioni Urbane – Carpest, Carpi (MO)
2021
→ Open Up – Eurovision, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
→ Vetus Alia Natura Vei – Kill the Pig, Vetralla (VT)
→ Artù Street Art Festival, Portomaggiore (FE)
→ Capacyties – Tantemani, Bergamo (BG)
→ Fo.L.la – Lucca (LU)
→ Parees Fest – Oviedo (Spain)
→ BIM street Art festival – Igea Marina (RN)
→ Per una casa più vivibile – Parma (PR)
→ Vedo a Colori – Civitanova Marche (MC)
2020
→ Link — Urban Festival, Brescia (Bs)
→ Deltarte — Corbola (Ro)
→ Restart Urban Festival, Imola (Bo)
→ Subsidenze Street Art Festival, Ravenna
→ Manufactory Project, Comacchio (Fe)
→ Inward, Napoli (Na)
→ Musac, Albano Laziale (Roma)
→ Rock In Rolo, Rolo (Re)
→ Trame Festival – Clan, Grosseto (Gr)
→ Parco Dei Murales – Nube Collettivo, San Cipriano D’aversa (Ce)
2019
→ T.A.G. – Restart Urban festival, Imola (BO)
→ Un’altra stazione – Cesena (FC)
→ Myllenium Award – Roma
→ Stray Art Fest – Syros (Greece)
→ Utopia Fest – Agrigento (AG)
→ AppARTengo Festival – Stigliano (MT)
→ Draw the Line Festival – Campobasso (CB)
→ Cantinarte – Vairano Patenora (CE)
→ Manufactory Festival – Comacchio (FE)
→ Vedo a Colori Festival – Civitanova Marche (MC)
2018
→ Migrants – P.A.I.N.T. for Poste Italiane, curated by PPTart – Quarrata (PT)
→ Segni Urbani Street Art Festival – Parma (PR)
→ Riscossa 1968/2018 – Montevago (AG)
→ Love Rugby/Fight Racism – Librino (CT)
→ 1st prize at Impiastreet 2018 – Spirano (BG)
→ Egyptian Rossini – Lugo (RA)
2017
→ Teamwork design and set-up for Isia’s BCBF Stand
→ Restart Urban Festival – Imola (BO)
→ ProPositivo Festival – Macomer (NU)
→ Art Lab Occupato – Parma (PR)
→ Rurales Emilia Project – Renazzo (FE)
2016 – 2014
→ Nostoi Festival – Gerocarne (VB)
→ Librino, Res Publica Temporanea – Catania (CT)
→ Porte Aperte Festival – Cremona (CR)
→ Rurales Emilia Project – Renazzo (FE)
→ BAUM, Bolognina Arti Urbane in Movimento – Bologna (BO)
→ 2nd prize at Street mARTignano – Martignano (TN)
WORKSHOP
2017
→ Risograph printing W/ Eurostandard Collective, SPRINT _\|/_ Independent Publishers and Artists’ Books Salon – Milano (MI)
2014
→ Calligraphy Gotica Rotunda W/ L. Barcellona Ass. Calligrafica Italiana – Milano (MI)
2013
→ Linocutting and Typography printing W/ &TYPE – Varese (VA)
2012
→ Illustrate from the intuition W/ J. Zabala Scuola Internazionale d’Illustrazione – Sarmede (TV)
EDUCATION
2015 – 2018
→ Illustration and Graphic Design
ISIA – Urbino (PU), Italy
2013 – 2015
→ Faculty of History of art
Università degli Studi – Milano (MI), Italy
2007 – 2011
→ Artistic High School B. Munari
Cremona (CR), Italy
ARTISTIC RESIDENCES
2020
→ Campidarte – Ussana (CA)
2019
→ An Atlas of Rocky Landscape – Matera and Montescaglioso (MT)
→ Riba Rocks – Riba Roja d’Ebre (Catalunya/Spain)
2017
→ Festival della Resilienza – ProPositivo, Macomer (NU), Sardegna